Summit

The Nordic Baltic Open Education Summit: Setting the Future Agenda for Open Educational Collaboration
Stockholm, 23-24^th of November 2011
Open Education means free access to educational resources -- even though this approach seems to be promising for education, it has not yet reached its full potentials. However, the Nordic and Baltic countries might create the first region to make open education real!
The Nordic Baltic Open Education Summit aims at setting the agenda for future education. Be part of the process and join the Baltic Nordic community to improve open education in our countries!
What is the conference all about?
The Nordic Baltic Open Education Summit brings together experts and practitioners from across the region to discuss the future of Open Education in our area!

• How to influence and change the game in the Nordic and Baltic countries towards more Open Education and use of Open Educational Resources?
• How to make collaboration work using shared and open educational resources?
• How can we improve collaboration and use synergies between the Nordic and Baltic countries?
• How can we develop sustainable models for Open Education?
• What are pedagogical and technical success factors?

These are some of the key questions for the Open Education Summit on Nov. 23-24 in Stockholm Sweden – the Summit will produce the Open Education Declaration as a guideline and agenda for open education in the next years.
What is Open Education?
Open Education and the use of Open Educational Resources have been discussed frequently in the past decade. Many projects and initiatives have developed freely accessible resources and shared them - however, these initiatives are in many cases national or restricted to small communities. We have not yet reached the full potential of Open Educational Resources.
The goal of the conference is to develop a future agenda to improve collaboration and use the full potential of Open Education and Open Educational Resources (OER). Some issues for the conferences are:

• What are the main initiatives and successful projects?
• What are the main barriers and success factors?
• How can we successfully combine our efforts?
• How to develop a future collaboration and research agenda?

The conference will discuss successful (and not so successful) approaches – we will work in expert groups identifying the future agenda of open education. The outcome of the conference will contribute to open education and Nordic-Baltic cooperation, and to the political and practical agenda. The conference is the final event of the NORDLET project.

Key topics
The conference aims at identifying potentials and opportunities for Open Educational Resources collaboration between the Nordic and Baltic countries. Some of the key topics that will be discussed are

• Collaboration: How to organize successful Nordic Baltic collaborations in Open Education, what are differences and barriers?
• Pedagogies: Why does Open Education and sharing work better in the Nordic-Baltic countries? How to embed OER in the curriculum and teaching activities?
• Technical aspects: How to make OER work on a technical level?
• Internationalization: How to deal with cultural & language differences?
• Legal and policy aspect: How to deal with IPR? How to get support on a policy level?

These topics will be addressed in workshop and groups – all workgroups provide input and make recommendations for the final Open Education Declaration

Who should participate? How to register?
The main idea of the conference is to allow experience exchange and networking for open education / around the issue of open educational resources. The conference program allows active participation for creating future activities in the field. The program is suitable for

• Policy makers: How to shape future policies for open education / open educational resources?
• Teachers / professors: How to use existing open educational offers in schools and universities? What is needed to make re-use and sharing work?
• Researchers / technologists: What are current trends and how can they be utilized for future open education initiatives?
• Instructional designers: How can we embed open education / open educational practices in recent pedagogies?

The conference is open for all and free of charge, just register to the conference organizer: jan.pawlowski@jyu.fi (Subject=NORDLET).
Registration deadline: 04.11.2011

Venue and Organization
The conference will take place in the premises of the Swedish National Agency for Education, Fleminggatan 14, 106 20 Stockholm.
Program
The conference does not include long presentations - it isbased on workshops and discourse to combine the expertise of the participants. We will have, however, high profile moderators and opinion leaders in the workshops to share expertise, provoke discussions and develop the future agenda.
23 November 2011 - 17h - 20h Theme: Preparing the common ground
17:00 - 17:20 Welcome by Jan Pawlowski, coordinator of NORDLET and University of Jyväskylä
17:20 - 19:00 My favourite -- NORDLET partners and participants present their favourite learning resource, repository or technology: Where did we come from and where are we heading? Moderator: Peter Karlberg, Skolverket, Sweden
19:00 - 19:20 Refill of refreshments
19:20 - 20:00 I will sleep on this one - My case for a Nordic Baltic OER Declaration: Short presentations of the participants' input statements to prepare the ground for next day's meeting.
24 November 2011 - 9:00 – 16.00
Theme: Setting the Future Agenda for Open Educational Collaboration
9:00 - 10:00 The Global Case for Open Educational Resources - Keynote UNESCO (to be confirmed)
10:00 - 10:15 Coffee and tea
10:15 - 11:45 Key challenges for exchange of learning resources - Group discussions facilitated by Airina Volungeviciene, Lithuanian Distance and e-Learning Association
11:45 - 13:00 10 statements that will change the OER agenda in the Nordic and Baltic countries, facilitation: Tore Hoel, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 Sense-making and negotiations - Faciliation: Erlend Øverby, Karde AS and Christian Dalsgaard, Aarhus University
15:00 - 15:15 Refreshments
15:15 - 16:00 Committing to common goals: Do we have a OER Declaration and what do we do with it? Facilitation: Jan Pawlowski and Tore Hoel
Hotel

Conference participants receive a special rate of 1299-1450 Skr for a single room (depending on the size). Please make your reservation by email to amaranten@firsthotels.se - please refer to "Swedish Goverment (statliga avtalet)"

Hotel Homepage (also containing map and directions)

About NORDLET
The main goal of the NORDLET project is to build a Nordic-Baltic network and Community of Practice set to develop and harness a region-specific perspective on the use of technology in Learning, Education and Training. The common ground for the NORDLET Open Educational Community is to provide a single cross-sector, cross-country access point to educational resources within a dynamic network. Our focus is to promote sharing, re-use and enhancement of learning scenarios and learning resources across all levels of the educational systems of the Nordplus countries.
The NORDLET community will follow the Nordic tradition of creating open dynamic educational opportunities for all - providing networking and technology tools to enhance cooperation and communication across countries and sector boundaries to improve the exchange of educational materials, pedagogical and technological expertise
More Information
Jan Pawlowski, jan.pawlowski@jyu.fi, http://www.nordlet.org
You can also contribute your ideas, experiences and recommendations before the conference, just check out the conference wiki: http://tinyurl.com/summitwiki